Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a gate electrode structure configured of a polysilicon-metal lamination that is easily etched. SOLUTION: The gate electrode lamination structure is one on a substrate of a semiconductor device provided with a gate conductor having at least one layered polysilicon 3 and a layer 4 of at least one layered poly Si 1-x Ge x material, and the structure can be effectively etched because an end point can be detected by etching the polysilicon 3 and the layer 4 of the poly Si 1-x Ge x material. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
Abstract translation:要解决的问题:提供一种由容易蚀刻的多晶硅 - 金属层压构成的栅电极结构。 解决方案:栅电极层叠结构是在具有至少一层多晶硅3的栅极导体和至少一层多晶Si 1-x 2层4的半导体器件的衬底上的一个。 SB> Ge x SB>材料,并且可以有效地蚀刻结构,因为可以通过蚀刻多晶硅3和多晶硅Si-1-x SB>的层4来检测终点 葛 X SB>材料。 版权所有(C)2007,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a field effect transistor structure which has a reduction in the overlap capacitance between a gate electrode and source/drain regions and in the resistance of a channel coupling that is set by a manufacturing process. SOLUTION: Spacer structures 242p and 242n of a field effect transistor have sections where bound charge carriers are concentrated, and zones 13n and 13p where mobile charge carriers are concentrated are generated in a semiconductor substrate 1 under the spacer structures. The zones 13n and 13p reduce the resistance of a channel coupling between a channel region 63 controlled by the potential of a gate electrode 21 and respective source/drain regions 61 and 62, and also reduce the overlap capacitance between the gate electrode 21 and the respective source/drain regions 61 and 62. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
Semiconductor devices having deep trenches with fill material therein having low resistivity are provided along with methods of fabricating such semiconductor devices.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a method for producing trench capacitors having trenches (3-9) with mesopores (3-12). These trench capacitors are suited both for discrete capacitors and for integrated semiconductor memories. The mesopores significantly increase the surface for electrodes for the trench capacitors and thereby the capacitance of the trench capacitors. According to the invention, the mesopores, which are small channels similar to those made by woodworms and which have diameters ranging from 2 to 50 nm, are electrochemically produced. This method enables the production of capacitances with a high capacitance-to-volume ratio. The invention is additionally advantageous in that the growth of the mesopores stops once the mesopores reach a minimal distance from another mesopore or from adjacent trenches (self-passivation). As a result, the formation of short circuits between two adjacent mesopores can be prevented in a self-regulated manner. The invention also relates to a semiconductor component comprising at least one trench capacitor on the front side of a semiconductor substrate, which can be produced using the inventive method.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a method for the generation of a Silicon-On-Insulator layer structure on a silicon surface with any shape, whereby the Silicon-On-Insulator structure can only be produced locally. The method comprises the formation of mesopores (10) in the silicon surface region (3), the oxidation of the mesopore surface to give silicon oxide and web regions (22) of single-crystal silicon, remaining between adjacent mesopores (10), whereby said step is terminated as soon as a given minimum silicon wall strength for the web regions (22) is achieved, the release of the web regions (22) between adjacent mesopores at the end away from the semiconductor substrate (2) is carried out and a selective epitaxial process by means of which silicon is selectively grown on the released web regions (22) relative to the silicon oxide regions (11). The method can be used for the production of a vertical transistor and a memory cell with such a selection transistor.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a method for structuring a silicon oxide layer. According to said method, a substrate comprising a silicon oxide layer with a mask is provided in a plasma reactor. The silicon oxide layer is exposed to a plasma which is produced from an etching gas containing at least one fluorocarbon compound that is selected from the group consisting of compounds of the empirical formula CxHyFz, wherein x = 1 to 5, y = 0 to 4 and z = 2 to 10. The process is optimised by direct switching between the etching and deposition modes, which is achieved by varying the potential difference between the substrate and the plasma.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a circuit arrangement comprising a bit line (10), a reference bit line (12), a sense amplifier equipped with two cross-coupled CMOS inverters, each of the latter having an n-channel transistor (20, 22) and a p-channel field effect transistor (30, 32), in addition to two respective voltage sources (40, 42) at the source connections, the voltage source (40) that is connected to the n-channel field effect transistors being traversed by a voltage rising from low to high and the voltage source (42) that is connected to the p-channel field effect transistors (30, 32) being traversed by a voltage reducing from high to low. Said circuit arrangement allows three different charge states to be stored in the memory cell (4) on the bit line (10), if the cut-off voltages (UTH1, UTH2) in the transistors are selected to be greater than half the voltage differential between the lower and upper voltage potential. This can be achieved technically during production or for example by the modification of the substrate bias voltage. The third charge state can be used for binary logic or to detect a defect in the memory cell (4).
Abstract:
A structure on a layer surface of the semiconductor wafer comprises at least one first surface (8,9) area reflecting electromagnetic radiation and at least one second substantially non-reflecting surface area (10,11,12). A transparent insulating layer (13) and a light-sensitive layer are produced on said layer surface. Electromagnetic radiation is directed at the light-sensitive layer at an incident angle &thetas; and the structure of the layer surface is imaged onto the light-sensitive layer with a lateral replacement.
Abstract:
The invention relates to an electrode arrangement for charge storage with an external trench electrode (202; 406), embodied along the wall of a trench provided in a substrate (401) and electrically insulated on both sides in the trench by a first and a second dielectric (104; 405, 409); an internal trench electrode (201; 410), serving as counter-electrode to the external trench electrode (201; 406) and insulated by the second dielectric (104; 409) and a substrate electrode (201; 403), which is insulated by the first dielectric (104; 405) outside the trench, which serves as counter-electrode to the external trench electrode (202; 406) and is connected to the internal trench electrode (201; 410) in the upper trench region.
Abstract:
A method for the production of trench capacitors, especially memory cells and at least one selection transistor for integrated semiconductor memories. According to the invention, the trench for the trench capacitor has a lower trench area (3-10c) in which the capacitor is arranged and an upper trench area (3-10a) in which an electrically conducting connection (3-44, 3-20b) between an electrode of the capacitor (3-20a) to a diffusion area of the selection transistor is disposed. The inventive method reduces the number of process steps for the production of memory cells and enables the production of buried shrouds in the memory capacitors which exhibit the same insulation quality as that which is required for the production of highly integrated memory cells (diameter